Many distributions provide KDE SVN (KDE 4) and Qt packages, so that if you're simply porting your application to KDE4, then you don't have to worry about compiling kdelibs and kdebase frequently in order to keep up-to-date. Here's the information for a few different distributions:

Many distributions provide KDE SVN (KDE 4) and Qt packages, so that if you're simply porting your application to KDE4, then you don't have to worry about compiling kdelibs and kdebase frequently in order to keep up-to-date. Here's the information for a few different distributions:

Official Gentoo KDE Team testing overlay provides packages for KDE 4.2 live branch, unstable snapshots, and KDE's trunk as well.

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Instructions:<br>

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1) Visit http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-708282.html for more information about overlay support.<br>

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2) # layman -a kde-testing<br>

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3) Visit Documentation/ directory in overlay for more information about setting up your system.<br>

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== Fedora ==

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Fedora Project has released packages for KDE 4.0.0 through KDE repository (http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/kde.repo)

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Instructions: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/kde/wiki

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Instructions:<br>

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1) Download the KDE repository from the link above.<br>

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2) Enable KDE-unstable repository.<br>

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3) Do a "yum update".<br>

Latest revision as of 18:08, 13 July 2012

Many distributions provide KDE SVN (KDE 4) and Qt packages, so that if you're simply porting your application to KDE4, then you don't have to worry about compiling kdelibs and kdebase frequently in order to keep up-to-date. Here's the information for a few different distributions: